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{{infobox poker player {{Infobox poker player
|name=Annie Duke |name = Annie Duke
|nickname=Annie Legend, The Duke, The Duchess of Poker |nickname = Annie Legend, The Duke, The Duchess of Poker<ref name=Cheney/>
|image=Annie Duke 2010.jpg |image = Annie Duke 2010.jpg
|caption=Annie Duke at the 2010 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship |caption = Annie Duke at the 2010 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship
|hometown=Los Angeles, California |residence = Los Angeles, California
|birth_date={{birth date and age|1965|9|13}} |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1965|9|13}}
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|wsop bracelet count=1
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|wsop main event best finish year=2000
|multi-year wsop winner
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|updated=07-21-2010
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|wsop bracelet count = 1
'''Annie Duke''' (born '''Anne LaBarr Lederer''';<ref name=nytimes>“”, '']''. Marriage Announcement. April 26, 1992. ''(Retrieved 2009-05-11.)''</ref> September 13, 1965) is a professional ] player and author who won a ] in the ] $2,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Event and was the winner of the 2004 ], where she earned the Winner-Take-All prize of $2,000,000. In 2010, she won the ], earning a cash prize of $500,000 in addition to the title. From 2011 to 2012 she was co-founder, executive vice president, and commissioner of the ] until its assets were auctioned off in June 2012.<ref>http://www.lvrj.com/business/pinnacle-entertainment-acquires-bankrupt-operators-of-epic-poker-league-and-heartland-poker-tour-159196295.html</ref>
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==Personal life==
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Duke was born '''Anne LaBarr Lederer''' in ], the daughter of Rhoda S. (née Spagenberg) and ], a writer and ] who taught at ].<ref name=nytimes/><ref name="columbiabio"></ref> Her brother, ], is also a professional poker player. Her sister, ], is an author and poet who wrote a book about the Lederer family, titled ''Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers''. She has four children, the first born in 1995.<ref name="columbiabio" />
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Annie attended ] where she double-majored in ] and ]. Subsequent to her undergraduate years, Duke was awarded an ] to attend graduate school at the ] to study ], a field within ]. Although originally intending to continue her studies, she decided to leave school in 1992, after five years of graduate school and one month before ] her ] work.<ref name="columbiabio" /> She married Ben Duke, a close friend from the same university, and moved to his home in ]. It was at this time that, with the support of her brother, she began playing poker in nearby ].
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In 2002, she moved to ] to work for ieLogic, a company that produces software for online real time casino gaming, which eventually came to life as ].<ref>''How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed, and Won Millions at The World Series of Poker.''</ref> She and Ben were divorced in 2004, but she did win a $500 wager made with fellow pro ], who bet her that her marriage wouldn't last five years.<ref>'']'' Season 1, Episode 1</ref> In 2005 she and her children moved to the ] neighborhood of ]. Duke and her then new, ] home—with fiance ]—were featured in '']'' article "At Home With Annie Duke" on January 19, 2006.<ref>Bellafante, Gina. “,” ''The New York Times''. January 19, 2006.</ref>


'''Annie Duke''' (born '''Anne LaBarr Lederer''') is an ] professional ] player and author. She holds a ] (WSOP) gold bracelet from 2004 and is the leading money winner among women in WSOP history. Duke won the 2004 ] and the ] in 2010. She has written a number of instructional books for poker players, including ''Decide to Play Great Poker'' and ''The Middle Zone'', and she published her autobiography, ''How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed, and Won Millions at the World Series of Poker'' in 2005.
==Poker==
After leaving her academic work, Duke began playing poker in the legal card rooms in ].<ref name="columbiabio" />


Duke co-founded the non-profit ] with actor ] in 2007, to benefit charities working in African nations, and has raised money for other charities and non-profits through playing in and hosting charitable poker tournaments. She has been involved in advocacy on a number of poker-related issues including advocating for the legality of online gambling and for players' rights to control their own image. Duke was co-founder, executive vice president, and commissioner of the ] from 2011 to 2012.
In early 2004, Duke received considerable publicity for tutoring actor ], who then went on to win the 2004 ]. In the ], she eliminated her brother, Howard Lederer, from four separate events, including the ], where she took ] and her brother took third. During this same World Series, she won her first ], in an ] tournament. She was one of three women (] and ] being the other two) to win an open event in that year's WSOP.


==Early life and family==
Duke is one of many poker players who disagree with the restrictions placed on players during televised tournaments. Although the players pay mandatory fees to enter tournaments, some venues do not allow players to wear sponsorship logos. Duke raised some controversy when she made a statement in a news article regarding this issue: "We are not even slaves. We're people paying to pick the cotton."<ref></ref>
Duke, born as Anne LaBarr Lederer,<ref name=NYTStyle>{{cite news |title=Anne LaBarr Lederer Is Married To Benjamin B. Duke in Connecticut |url=http://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/26/style/anne-labarr-lederer-is-married-to-benjamin-b-duke-in-connecticut.html |newspaper=] |date=26 April 1992 |accessdate=5 March 2013}}</ref> grew up in ], where her father, writer and linguist ], taught English literature at ]<ref name=Cheney>{{cite news |first= Dina |last= Cheney |title= Flouting Convention, Part II: Annie Duke Finds Her Place at the Poker Table |url=http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/jul04/features4.php |newspaper=Columbia College Today |date=July 2004 |accessdate=21 February 2013}}</ref> and her mother, Rhoda Lederer, taught at Concord High School.<ref name=NYTStyle/><ref name=Jones>{{cite news |first=Del |last=Jones |title= Know yourself, know your rival |url= http://www.lexisnexis.com.ezproxy.tcu.edu/lnacui2api/api/version1/getDocCui?lni=7W6J-64C1-2R4X-F539&csi=8213&hl=t&hv=t&hnsd=f&hns=t&hgn=t&oc=00240&perma=true |newspaper=] |date=20 July 2009 |accessdate=21 February 2013}}</ref> Her parents were both card players<ref name=Friess>{{cite news |first=Steve |last=Friess |title= A pair of poker aces. |url= http://www.boston.com/ae/games/articles/2007/07/02/a_pair_of_poker_aces/? |newspaper=] |date=2 July 2007 |accessdate=21 February 2013}}</ref> and Duke became interested in cards from an early age.<ref name=Deitsch>{{cite web |first=Richard |last=Deitsch |url= http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writers/richard_deitsch/05/26/annie.deitsch/ |title=Q&A with Annie Duke |date=26 May 2005 |work=] |accessdate=21 February 2013}}</ref> Her siblings are professional poker player ] and author and poet ], who published a memoir about the Lederer family.<ref name=Sauer>{{cite news |first=Mark |last=Sauer |title=Annie Duke found her calling |url=http://www.utsandiego.com/uniontrib/20051009/news_1c09annie.html |newspaper=] |date=9 October 2005 |accessdate=21 February 2013}}</ref>


Duke attended St. Paul's School,<ref name=NYTStyle/> then enrolled at ] where she double-majored in ] and ].<ref name=Cheney/> After graduating from Columbia, she pursued a ] in psychology at the ], focusing on ] and writing her dissertation on a hypothesis of how children learn their first language called "syntactic bootstrapping".<ref name=Bellafante>{{cite news |first=Ginia |last=Bellafante |title=Dealt A Bad Hand? Fold ‘em. Then Raise. |url= http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/19/garden/19duke.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 |newspaper= ] |date=19 January 2006 |accessdate=21 February 2013}}</ref> For her graduate studies she was awarded a ] fellowship.<ref name=Cheney/> In 1991, one month before ] her doctoral dissertation, she decided that she no longer wished to pursue academia and left school.<ref name=Jones>{{cite news |first=Del |last=Jones |title= Know yourself, know your rival |url= http://www.lexisnexis.com.ezproxy.tcu.edu/lnacui2api/api/version1/getDocCui?lni=7W6J-64C1-2R4X-F539&csi=8213&hl=t&hv=t&hnsd=f&hns=t&hgn=t&oc=00240&perma=true |newspaper=] |date=20 July 2009 |accessdate=21 February 2013}}</ref>
In 2006, Duke won the second annual ] (WSORPS). The WSORPS is an annual charity tournament hosted by ] at the World Series of Poker. The winner receives free entry into the WSOP Main Event and the proceeds are donated to Gordon's charity ''Bad Beat on Cancer.''

In 1992, she married Ben Duke, and moved to ].<ref name=NYTStyle/><ref name=Darrow>{{cite news |first=Chuck |last=Darrow |title= Annie Duke, Flush With Success |url= http://articles.philly.com/2010-06-08/entertainment/24961645_1_annie-duke-poker-bracelet-howard-lederer |newspaper=] |date=8 June 2010 |accessdate=21 February 2013}}</ref> They were married until 2004 and had four children.<ref name=Bellafante/><ref name=Berger>{{cite news |title=Annie Duke, Poker Pro |author=Jamie Berger |url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alumni/Magazine/Spring2002/Duke.html |work=Columbia Magazine |date=Spring 2002 |accessdate=4 March 2013}}</ref> The couple lived in both ] and Montana for periods of time from 1992 to 2002, when they moved to ]. In 2005, Duke and her children moved to the ] neighborhood of ].<ref name=Cheney/><ref name=Bellafante/>

==Professional poker career==
===Early career===
Duke first played ] in a casino at age 22 and continued to play for fun in Las Vegas casinos while visiting her brother, Howard Lederer during her graduate school years.<ref name=Cheney/> After she moved to Billings, Montana in 1992, Lederer encouraged Duke to play poker professionally, sending her $2,400 and providing her with poker instruction books and lessons by phone.<ref name=Deitsch/> She began to play poker initially at the Crystal Lounge, a local bar in Billings that had a legal poker room. Following a successful year playing in Montana, her brother prompted her to enter tournaments at the 1994 ] (WSOP) in Las Vegas.<ref name=Cheney/> Within the first month, she won $70,000 and decided to move to Las Vegas to pursue her professional poker career.<ref name=Jones/>


===Live poker=== ===Live poker===
In the first two tournaments of the 1994 World Series of Poker, Duke placed 14th and 5th, and finished 26th in the Main Event.<ref name=HendonMob>{{cite web |url=http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=74 |title=Annie Duke:Results |date= |work=] |publisher= |accessdate=18 April 2013}}</ref> Following her move to Las Vegas, Duke continued successfully playing poker on a professional basis through the late 1990s,<ref name=Cheney/> and by 2000 had 16 ] finishes at WSOP events, prior to the WSOP World Championship event that year.<ref name=Berger/>
====Tournaments====
As of 2010, her total live tournament winnings exceeded $4,270,000.<ref></ref> Her 38 ] at the WSOP account for $1,128,951 of those winnings.<ref>, worldseriesofpoker.com</ref>


From 2000 onward, she became well-known for her high profile achievements in WSOP events.<ref name=ESPN>{{cite web |url= http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/poker/columns/story?columnist=wise_gary&id=4975781 |last1= Wise |first1=Gary |title= Welcome back, Annie Duke |date= 8 March 2010 |work=] |accessdate=21 February 2013}}</ref> In the 2000 WSOP World Championship event, while nine months pregnant with her third child, she placed 10th out of a total of 512 players, which was the second-highest finish by a woman in the event's history.<ref name=Cheney/><ref name=WSOP>{{cite web |url=http://www.wsop.com/players/playerprofile.asp?playerID=222 |title=Player Profile: Annie Duke |date= |work=wsop.com |publisher=] |accessdate=1 March 2013}}</ref> She received a ] in 2004, placing first out of 234 entrants in an ] tournament.<ref name=Neff/><ref name=Sauer>{{cite news |first=Mark |last=Sauer |title=Annie Duke found her calling |url=http://www.utsandiego.com/uniontrib/20051009/news_1c09annie.html |newspaper=] |date=9 October 2005 |accessdate=21 February 2013}}</ref> By July of that year she had become the top female money winner in the history of the WSOP; earning over $650,000 from 25 in the money finishes, including 13 at the final table.<ref name=Cheney/> Later in 2004, she placed first in the inaugural ], beating her brother and nine former world championship winners and winning $2 million.<ref name=Deitsch/><ref name=ESPN/> In the 2006 WSOP, she was one of only two women left in the tournament when she finished in 88th place with $51,129 in winnings.<ref name=Calistri>{{cite news |title=Women and Poker: A 2006 Retrospective |last=Calistri |first=Amy |url=http://www.pokernews.com/news/2007/01/women-poker-2006-retrospective.htm |work=Poker News.com |date=3 January 2007 |accessdate=7 March 2013}}</ref>
=====World Series of Poker=====
As of 2010, Annie holds the women's record for most "]" finishes at the WSOP, ranking 32nd overall with 38 cashes.<ref> {{cite web | url = http://www.pokerpages.com/players/leaderboards.php?list=wsop-cashes | title = Current List: WSOP Cashes Top 100 players ranked by number of WSOP cashes. | accessdate = 2010-07-21 | publisher = PokerPages.com}}</ref> In September 2004, Duke won $2,000,000 in the inaugural World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions, a 10-player, winner-take-all invitational event. At the time, this victory was the most money paid in a single event to a female poker player. That record was broken by ] as a result of her victory in the 2007 ] Main Event.


In 2010, Duke won the NBC ], winning $500,000 and becoming the first and only female winner of the event {{as of|2013|lc=y}}. Her previous record at the tournament was one match win and five losses.<ref name=ESPN>{{cite web |url= http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/poker/columns/story?columnist=wise_gary&id=4975781 |last1= Wise |first 1= Gary |title= Welcome back, Annie Duke |date= 8 March 2010 |work=] |accessdate=21 February 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Editorial: Who Should Be In The Field For The National Heads Up Poker Championship? |author=Earl Burton |url=http://www.pokernewsdaily.com/editorial-who-should-be-in-the-field-for-the-national-heads-up-poker-championship-23099/ |work=Poker News Daily |date=11 January 2013 |accessdate=18 April 2013}}</ref> In the 2010 event she came first out of 64 players, including previous winner ], and defeated ] in the final match.<ref name=Keefer>{{cite news |title=Annie Duke outlasts 63 poker pros, becomes heads-up champion |last=Keefer |first=Case |url=http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/mar/07/annie-duke-outlasts-63-top-poker-pros-becomes-head/ |newspaper=] |date= |accessdate=1 March 2013}}</ref>
Duke has won one World Series of Poker bracelet, in Omaha HiLo, and more than three million dollars in tournament play. Nowadays she refuses to play in women's only tournaments, saying that "Poker is one of the few sports where a woman can compete on a totally equal footing with a man, so I don't understand why there's a ladies only tournament."<ref></ref>


{{As of|2013}}, Duke's total winnings from her 38 ] at the WSOP is $1,141,567<ref name=WSOP/> and she holds the women's record for most in the money finishes at the WSOP, ranking 34th overall.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.pokerpages.com/players/leaderboards.php?list=wsop-cashes | title = Current List: WSOP Cashes Top 100 players ranked by number of WSOP cashes. |work=PokerPages.com | accessdate = 1 March 2013}}</ref> In total, Duke has won over $4,270,000 in live tournaments and is ranked as the third highest winning woman of all time, {{as of|2012|lc=y}}.<ref name=Kirk>{{cite news |title=Five on Friday: Made for TV Millionnaires |last=Kirk |first=Jason |url=http://calvinayre.com/2012/04/06/poker/five-on-friday-made-for-tv-millionaires/ |work=Calvin Ayre.com |date=6 April 2012 |accessdate=1 March 2013}}</ref>
In the Main Event of the ], she finished in 88th place (out of 8,773 entrants) for $51,129 in winnings. She was one of two women left in the field when she was eliminated. (The remaining woman, ], later finished in 56th place for $123,699.)


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=====Other notable tournaments===== ===Online poker activities===
From 2001 to 2004, Duke worked as a spokesperson and consultant for ieLogic, a company that developed online poker software for multiplayer poker websites including ].<ref name=Cheney/> She moved to Portland, Oregon where ieLogic was based in 2002 and remained there until 2005.<ref name=Bellafante/>
In 2010, Duke won the ].<ref> (''Retrieved 2010-03-08.'')</ref> In a field of 64 top-ranked players, Duke defeated in order: ], ], ], ], ] and ].


Duke represented Ultimate Bet as a spokesperson until December 2010, when she announced that she was leaving the company.<ref name=Welman>{{cite web |url=http://www.bluff.com/news/annie-duke-parts-ways-with-ub-poker-17735/ |last1= Welman |first1= Jessica |title= Annie Duke Parts Ways with UB Poker |date= 30 December 2010 |work=] |accessdate=20 February 2013}}</ref>
===Online poker===

Until December 30, 2010, when she and Phil Hellmuth announced their departure, Duke was an UltimateBet Cardroom Consultant and a member of Team UB.<ref>http://www.ultimatebet.com/team-ub-poker-pros/annie-duke/bio</ref>
On two occasions, Duke has testified in Congress on behalf of the ] regarding the legality of ]. In 2007, she appeared in front of the ] to testify against the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006,<ref name=PPATestimony>{{cite web |url= http://theppa.org/press-releases/2007/11/13/dc-annie-duke-testimony-for-judiciary-hearing/ |title=Testimony of Annie Duke on Behalf of the Poker Players Alliance House Committee on the Judiciary “Establishing Consistent Enforcement Policies in the Context of Internet Wagers” |date= 14 Nov 2007 |work=ThePPA.org |publisher=Poker Players Alliance |accessdate=21 February 2013}}</ref> and in 2010, she appeared in front of the ] to provide support for H.R. 2267, the Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act.<ref name=HR2267Testimony>{{cite web |url=http://www.scribd.com/doc/34649389/HR2267-Annie-Duke-Testimony-07-21-10 |title=Testimony of Annie Duke on behalf of the Poker Players Alliance House Committee on Financial Services “H.R. 2267, Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection,and Enforcement Act” |date= 21 July 2012 |work=House Committee on Financial Services |accessdate=21 February 2013}}</ref>


===Other poker activities=== ===Other poker activities===
====Debates, advocacy and coaching====
As well as competing, Duke writes and speaks on poker-related subjects, and promotes poker-related organizations. Since 2000, she has been a spokesperson for UltimateBet and has written many articles for the online poker website, mainly on Omaha HiLo. In 2005, Duke penned her ], ''How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed, and Won Millions at The World Series of Poker''.<ref>Duke, Annie with Diamond, David (2005). ''Annie Duke: How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed, and Won Millions at The World Series of Poker'', Hudson Street Press.</ref>
As well as her advocacy regarding online gambling on behalf of the Poker Players Alliance,<ref name=PPATestimony/> Duke has also been involved in debate about whether players should be allowed to wear the logos of their sponsor companies at televised poker events. In the mid-2000s, she was one of a number of players that argued against such restrictions being placed on players.<ref name=Rosenbloom>{{cite news |title=Players aren't bluffing in logo battle |last=Rosenbloom |first=Steve |url=http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/poker/columns/story?columnist=rosenbloom_steve&id=2036285 |work=] |date=13 April 2005 |accessdate=1 March 2013}}</ref> In 2006, she was one of seven players who filed a lawsuit against the ] (WPT), alleging that the WPT's release forms, required for participation in their events, were anti-competitive and violated individuals' rights to their own image.<ref name=Caldwell>{{cite news |title=Several Top Players File a Lawsuit Against the World Poker Tour |last=Caldwell |first=John |url=http://www.pokernews.com/news/2006/07/several-players-file-lawsuit-wpt.htm |work=Poker News.com |date=19 July 2006 |accessdate=1 March 2013}}</ref> The suit was settled in 2008, when the WPT agreed to modify the release form.<ref>{{cite news |title=World Poker Tour Settles Player Release Lawsuit |last=Hintze |first=Hayley |url=http://www.pokernews.com/news/2008/04/world-poker-tour-settles-player-release-lawsuit.htm |work=Poker News.com |date=April 2008 |accessdate=1 March 2013}}</ref>


Duke has opposed and avoided playing at the WSOP Ladies Event, arguing that having a separate WSOP bracelet event for women suggests that there is a difference in intellect between men and women.<ref name=West>{{cite web |url=http://www.pokerpages.com/articles/archives/west32.htm |last=West |first=Justin |title=An Interview With Annie Duke - Part II |date= |work=Poker Pages |accessdate=26 February 2013}}</ref> Duke has also supported women in poker through coaching women players at the LIPS (Ladies International Poker Series) Tour,<ref name=Bergstrom>{{cite web |url= http://www.pokernews.com/news/2007/08/Womens-Poker-Spotlight-August-10-2007.htm | last1= Bergstrom| first1= Tina| |title= Women's Poker Spotlight
On January 30, 2006, Duke became the first poker personality to appear on '']''.<ref></ref> During the show, she talked about her book and what it's like to be a woman in a male-dominated event. In 2006, ] (GSN) premiered a television special titled ''Annie Duke Takes on the World'', which features Duke playing against amateur poker players. Duke has also made appearances on the ] playing ].
|date= 10 August 2007 |work=Poker News.com |accessdate=21 February 2013}}</ref> instructing at several women-only World Series of Poker Academy events,<ref name=West/> and giving the keynote speech at the 2011 Women in Poker Hall of Fame induction ceremony.<ref name=Newell>{{cite web |url=http://www.womanpokerplayer.com/pokernews/1307-she-saidshe-said-women-should-accept-annie-dukes-challenge.html |last=Newell |first=Jennifer |title=She Said/He Said: Women Should Accept Annie Duke's Challenge |date=23 September 2011 |work=Woman Poker Player |accessdate=26 February 2013}}</ref>


She has served on the World Series of Poker Player Advisory Council<ref name=Meth/> and has taught at the ] poker school.<ref name=DelMar>{{cite news |title=WSOP Academy features Annie Duke, Phil Hellmuth to teach in Main Event Primer |last=Del Mar |first=Maria |url=http://www.pokernewsdaily.com/wsop-academy-features-annie-duke-phil-hellmuth-to-teach-in-main-event-primer-3117/ |work=Poker News Daily |date=26 June 2009 |accessdate=1 March 2013}}</ref> She has also coached a number of celebrities on how to play poker, including ] and ],<ref name=Sauer/> whom she coached to win the 2004 ].<ref>{{cite news |title=What It's Like to Be a Woman Who Plays Professional Poker |last=Barton |first=Shawnee |url=http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/01/what-its-like-to-be-a-woman-who-plays-professional-poker/267037/ |work=] |date=11 January 2013 |accessdate=1 March 2013}}</ref>
Annie Duke has appeared on NBC's '']'' three times but has not won.


====Organizations====
Along with ], Duke is a coach on ]work’s ''Best Damn Poker Show'', which is sponsored by the poker site ].
Duke was a co-founder and commissioner of the ],<ref name=Hoppes>{{cite web |url=http://espn.go.com/espn/page2/index?id=7067196 |title=Annie Duke talks Epic Poker League, role model |date=October 2011 |work=] |accessdate=26 February 2013}}</ref> which sponsored three tournaments at the ] in 2011.<ref name=Stutz>{{cite news |first=Howard |last=Stutz |title=Pinnacle Entertainment acquires bankrupt operators of Epic Poker League and Heartland Poker Tour |url= http://www.lvrj.com/business/pinnacle-entertainment-acquires-bankrupt-operators-of-epic-poker-league-and-heartland-poker-tour-159196295.html |newspaper=] |date=15 June 2012 |accessdate=21 February 2013}}</ref> Through the three tournaments, the league raised more than $125,000 for charity:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bluff.com/news/by-the-numbers-epic-poker-mix-max-25633/ |title=By The Numbers: Epic Poker Mix Max |last1=Welman |first1=Jennifer |date=11 December 2011 |work=] |publisher= |accessdate=14 March 2013}}</ref> $53,000 for humanitarian organization ];<ref name=Welman11>{{cite web |url=http://www.bluff.com/news/by-the-numbers-epic-poker-league-debut-24301/ |title=By The Numbers: Epic Poker League Debut |last1=Welman |first1=Jennifer |date=15 August 2011 |work=] |accessdate=26 February 2013}}</ref> $25,000 for the charity Fallen Heroes USA, which supports families of law enforcement officers who die in service;<ref name=Feldman>{{cite web |url=http://espn.go.com/fantasy/blog/_/name/poker/id/6939140/epic-poker-league-second-event-attracts-97-player-field |last=Feldman |first=Andrew |title=Anything but an Epic showing in Vegas |date=7 September 2011 |work=] |accessdate=26 February 2013}}</ref> and $48,000 for the Prevent Cancer Foundation's "Bad Beat on Cancer" campaign.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blog.preventcancer.org/2012/epic-poker-charity-tournament-raises-48000-for-the-prevent-cancer-foundation/ |title=Epic Poker Charity Tournament Raises $48,000 for the Prevent Cancer Foundation |date=1 March 2012 |work=Prevent Cancer Foundation blog |publisher=Prevent Cancer Foundation |accessdate=1 March 2013}}</ref> The league was co-founded by former World Series of Poker commissioner ], operating under Pollack's company Federated Sports + Gaming. After Epic Poker held its first three planned events, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on February 28, 2012. Filing records show Federated Sports + Gaming owed creditors more than $8 million. The Epic Poker League and its parent company were acquired by ] in a June 2012 bankruptcy auction.<ref name=Stutz/>


During 2011, Duke and Eric Faulkner, the CIO of Federated Sports + Gaming, created the Global Poker Index (GPI). The index ranks the top 300 live tournament poker players each week.<ref name=Holloway>{{cite web |url= http://www.pokernews.com/news/2011/07/revolutionizing-rankings-a-look-at-the-global-poker-index-10704.htm |last1=Holloway |first1=Chad |title=Revolutionizing the Rankings: a Look at the Global Poker Index |date=15 July 2011 |work=Poker News.com |accessdate=21 February 2013}}</ref>
====WSOP Poker Academy====
Annie Duke is a teacher at the ] poker school. She appeared on ''The Ellen DeGeneres Show'' and donated a WSOP Academy Experience Package which was auctioned off to benefit the Humane Society.<ref>,” World Series of Poker Academy, Instructors Listings. ''(Retrieved 2009-05-09.)''</ref><ref>” ''The Ellen DeGeneres Show''. May 4, 2009. ''(Retrieved 2009-05-09.)''</ref>


====Books, DVDs and product line====
==Other ventures==
Duke's book ''Decide to Play Great Poker'', a strategy book for no-limit hold'em, was published in June 2011. The book was co-authored with John Vorhaus.<ref name=HuffingtonPost>{{cite web |url= http://www.huffingtonpost.com/annie-duke/ |title=Annie Duke |date= |work=] |accessdate=21 February 2013}}</ref> The following year, Duke and Vorhaus published a second book together, ''The Middle Zone'', which focused on strategy for difficult ].<ref name=Smith>{{cite web |url=http://gamingtoday.com/articles/article/37237-2_for_Poker_learned_quickly_200_Poker_Tells_The_Middle_Zone |title=2 for Poker learned quickly: 200 Poker Tells, The Middle Zone |date= 31 July 2012 |work=Gaming Today |accessdate=26 February 2013}}</ref> In addition to her instructional books, Duke released an instructional DVD series including ''Annie Duke's Advanced Texas Hold'em Secrets: How to Beat the Big Boys''<ref name=HuffingtonPost/><ref name=Bellafante/> and in 2005 she launched a range of poker products with ].<ref name=Deitsch/>
In addition to poker, Duke is involved with various other ventures. On December 1, 2006, Duke appeared as a member of the Mob on the ] program, '']''.<ref></ref> She correctly answered every question and was the only celebrity who wasn't eliminated. She returned for the next few weeks, answering her questions correctly. She reappeared on the Christmas Day episode on December 25, answering a total of 35 consecutive questions correctly during her time on ''1 vs. 100,'' making her the longest running mob member in the history of the show to that point.{{Citation needed|date=April 2009}} Duke returned on February 9, 2007 under special "Last Man Standing" rules where the game continued until only one person remained. She survived to reach the final five of 100 contestants, before she, along with three of the other four mob members including ], were eliminated.<ref></ref>


==Philanthropy==
On March 24, 2008, Duke appeared on the NBC show '']'' to support a contestant named Mary Beth Holtzheimer who, after taking a $341,000 deal from the bank with only two cases left, found her case #13 had the $1,000,000. Annie gave Mary Beth an offer earlier that included a dinner with herself, Mary Beth, and her fiance John Salmieri; private lessons; and an invitation to attend an All Ladies Poker league if the bank's offer was accepted, but it was not.
Duke, actor ], and a mutual friend, Norman Epstein, co-founded the non-profit Ante Up for Africa in 2007 to raise money with ] for charities benefiting African countries.<ref name=Arseniuk>{{cite news |first=Melissa |last=Arseniuk |title=Matt Damon, Charles Barkley to play in charity poker tournament |url= http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/may/14/celebrities-gathering-vegas-charity-poker-tourname/ |newspaper=] |date=14 May 2009 |accessdate=21 February 2013}}</ref><ref name=Meth/> The first tournament in July 2007 was held at the start of the World Series of Poker<ref name=Neff/> and raised more than $700,000, which was donated to the ] and the International Rescue Committee.<ref name=Meth>{{cite web |url= http://www.americanprogress.org/press/statement/2007/07/11/14274/ante-up-for-africa-raises-over-700000-at-the-world-series-of-poker-to-provide-relief-in-darfur/ | last1= Meth| first1= Madeline |title= “Ante Up For Africa” Raises over $700,000 at the World Series of Poker® To Provide Relief in Darfur
|date= 11 July 2007 |work=] |accessdate=21 February 2013}}</ref><ref name=Hintze>{{cite web |url=http://www.pokernews.com/news/2007/05/wsop-darfur-fundraiser.htm |last=Hintze |first=Haley |title=Don Cheadle, Annie Duke to Headline WSOP Darfur Fundraiser |date=18 May 2007 |work=Poker News.com |accessdate=26 February 2013}}</ref> In 2008, 2009 and 2010, money raised in the organization's tournaments was again donated to the ENOUGH Project, and also to ],<ref name=Davis>{{cite news |first=Laura |last=Davis |title= Stars put on poker faces for charity |url= http://www.lvrj.com/news/22860799.html |newspaper=] |date=9 April 2008 |accessdate=21 February 2013}}</ref> Refugees International,<ref name=Cypra>{{cite web |url=http://www.pokernewsdaily.com/annie-duke-discusses-outcome-of-celebrity-apprentice-season-2-2406/ |last=Cypra |first=Dan |title=Annie Duke Discusses Outcome of Celebrity Apprentice Season 2 |date=12 May 2009 |work=Poker News.com |accessdate=26 February 2013}}</ref> ], and the ].<ref name=Leach>{{cite web |url=http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/jul/04/photos-don-cheadle-and-annie-dukes-ante-africa-rai/ |last=Leach |first=Robin |title=Don Cheadle and Annie Duke’s Ante Up for Africa raises $275,000 |date=4 July 2010 |work=] |accessdate=26 February 2013}}</ref>


In 2009, Duke entered the reality television show '']'' to raise money for Refugees International. She finished as a runner up to ] and raised more than $700,000 for her chosen charity,<ref>{{cite press release |title=Annie Duke Wins $700,000 for Refugees International as the second place victor on Celebrity Apprentice |url=http://www.refugeesinternational.org/press-room/press-release/annie-duke-wins-700000-refugees-international-second-place-victor-celebrity |publisher=Refugees International |date=11 May 2009 |accessdate=23 April 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Annie Duke Discusses Outcome of Celebrity Apprentice Season 2 |author=Dan Cypra |url=http://www.pokernewsdaily.com/annie-duke-discusses-outcome-of-celebrity-apprentice-season-2-2406/ |work=Poker News Daily |date=12 May 2013 |accessdate=23 April 2013}}</ref> over half of the total amount raised by contestants on the show. After the season ended, fans continued to donate to Refugees International and in May 2009 Duke hosted a charity poker tournament at the ] to benefit the charity.<ref name=Cox>{{cite web |url= http://www.bluff.com/news/annie-duke-gets-poker-players-to-suck-out-on-joan-rivers-3531/ |last1= Cox |first1= Diania |title= Annie Duke Gets Poker Players to Suck Out on Joan Rivers |date= 27 May 2009 |work=] |accessdate=21 February 2013}}</ref>
In 2009, she appeared on the reality television show, '']''.<ref>, ''The Celebrity Apprentice''. ].com, (''Retrieved 2009-05-03.'')</ref> on which contestants raise money for charities of their choice. Duke raised more money for her charity, ],<ref></ref> than any other contestant. Of the field of 16 competitors, Duke survived to compete in the finale against her primary rival throughout the show, ]. Duke's fund-raising donations were more than triple those of Rivers'. However, total donations were only one of five criteria adjudged in the final task, and Rivers was ranked superior in three out of the five, placing Duke in second place overall.

Duke has also played in and hosted charitable poker tournaments for organizations including Life Rolls On, the ], and ],<ref name=HuffingtonPost/> for which she helped to raise $500,000 in 2007<ref name=Neff>{{cite news |first=Erin |last=Neff |title= All in for charity |url= http://www.lexisnexis.com.ezproxy.tcu.edu/lnacui2api/api/version1/getDocCui?lni=4P4F-M9C0-TX2T-D29R&csi=156861&hl=t&hv=t&hnsd=f&hns=t&hgn=t&oc=00240&perma=true |newspaper=] |date=5 July 2007 |accessdate=21 February 2013}}</ref> and $425,000 in 2012.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://giving.childrenshospital.org/document.doc?id=378 |title=Let the Chips Fall |date=Fall 2012 |work=Spirit of Giving |publisher=Boston Children's Hospital |accessdate=19 April 2013}}</ref> She played in a charity poker tournament organized by the Poker Players Alliance in July 2009 to benefit the ] and the ]<ref name=Wells>{{cite news |first=Carrie |last=Wells |title=Lobbyists working to stack the deck in favor of fewer online poker rules |url= http://www.startribune.com/templates/Print_This_Story?sid=51357902 |newspaper=] |date=21 July 2009 |accessdate=21 February 2013}}</ref> and hosted a poker tournament in May 2010 to raise money for ], a non-profit supporting after-school programs for children from low income families.<ref name=Katz>{{cite news |title=Annie Duke to Host Charity Poker Tournament for After-School All-Stars |last=Katz |first=Dan |url=http://www.pokernewsdaily.com/annie-duke-to-host-charity-poker-tournament-for-after-school-all-stars-11047/ |work=Poker News Daily |date=5 May 2010 |accessdate=1 March 2013}}</ref>

From 2007, Duke served as a member of the board of directors for the Decision Education Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Palo Alto that provides training for teachers and mentors to produce curricula focused on decision-making skills for their students.<ref name=MercuryNews>{{cite news |title= People on the Move |url=http://www.lexisnexis.com.ezproxy.tcu.edu/lnacui2api/api/version1/getDocCui?oc=00240&hl=t&hns=t&hnsd=f&perma=true&lni=4R2Y-4WX0-TXCN-M195&hv=t&csi=313960&hgn=t&secondRedirectIndicator=true |newspaper=] |date=7 November 2007 |accessdate=21 February 2013}}</ref> {{As of|2013}}, she is no longer a member of the board of directors.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.decisioneducation.org/about-DEF/board-of-directors |title=DEF Board of Directors |work=Decision Education |publisher=Decision Education Foundation |accessdate=19 April 2013}}</ref>

==Other ventures==
Duke wrote an autobiography titled ''Annie Duke: How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed, and Won Millions at the World Series of Poker'', which was published in September 2005.<ref name=Deitsch/> She has performed for storytelling organization ],<ref name=Bronner>{{cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/02/the-moth-los-angeles_n_1317636.html |title=The Moth: Los Angeles Becomes The Newest Hub For Live Storytelling Events Brought To You By New York's The Moth |date= 2 March 2012 |work=] |accessdate=26 February 2013}}</ref> and in January 2013, she was a featured storyteller on the Unchained Tour, a storytelling tour across the Southern United States.<ref name=Wake>{{cite news |first=Matt |last=Wake |title=Unchained Tour storytellers traveling via '70s school bus to Huntsville's Flying Monkey Arts |url= http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2013/01/unchained_tour_brings_storytel.html |newspaper=] |date=9 January 2013 |accessdate=21 February 2013}}</ref>


====Television====
Annie Duke was co-founder, Executive Vice President<ref>http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/12981-epic-poker-bankruptcy-leaves-mountain-of-debt</ref> and League Commissioner<ref>http://espn.go.com/espn/page2/index?id=7067196</ref> of the ] during its short existence from 2011 until February 28, 2012 when it filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization. <ref>http://www.lvrj.com/business/pinnacle-entertainment-acquires-bankrupt-operators-of-epic-poker-league-and-heartland-poker-tour-159196295.html</ref> Accordingly to bankruptcy filings the ] generated only $37,052 in revenue during its short existence, while it amassed debts of over $8 million.<ref>http://www.poker.org/news/epic-poker-failure-leaves-company-in-8-million-hole-14679/</ref>
In the mid-2000s, Duke was a producer and consultant for ''All In'', a pilot television show for ] based on her life, in which she was played by ]. In the same time period, she also created ''Annie Duke Takes on the World'', a television show on the ] in which she played poker against amateur players.<ref name=Sauer/>


She has appeared on a number of television shows, including being the first poker personality to appear '']'' on January 30, 2006,<ref>{{Cite episode |title=The Colbert Report - Annie Duke |episodelink=http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/58369/january-30-2006/annie-duke |series=The Colbert Report |serieslink=The Colbert Report |credits= |network= |station= |date=30 January 2006 |season= |seriesno= |number= |minutes= |quote= |language=}}</ref> and finishing in second place in the 2009 season of ''Celebrity Apprentice''.<ref name=Cox/> Duke has also appeared on the game shows '']'' and '']''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pokernewsdaily.com/annie-duke-51/ |title=Annie Duke – Poker Player Profile |last1=Miller |first1=Jeremy |work=Poker News Daily |publisher= |accessdate=23 April 2013}}</ref>
==Bibliography==
*''Annie Duke: How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed, and Won Millions at the World Series of Poker'' (2005) ISBN 1-59463-012-7


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Annie Duke
Annie Duke at the 2010 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship
Nickname(s)Annie Legend, The Duke, The Duchess of Poker
ResidenceLos Angeles, California
Born (1965-09-13) September 13, 1965 (age 59)
Concord, New Hampshire
World Series of Poker
Bracelet(s)1
Money finish(es)38
Highest ITM
Main Event finish		10th, 2000
Information last updated on 24 April 2013.


Annie Duke (born Anne LaBarr Lederer) is an American professional poker player and author. She holds a World Series of Poker (WSOP) gold bracelet from 2004 and is the leading money winner among women in WSOP history. Duke won the 2004 World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions and the National Heads-Up Poker Championship in 2010. She has written a number of instructional books for poker players, including Decide to Play Great Poker and The Middle Zone, and she published her autobiography, How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed, and Won Millions at the World Series of Poker in 2005.

Duke co-founded the non-profit Ante Up for Africa with actor Don Cheadle in 2007, to benefit charities working in African nations, and has raised money for other charities and non-profits through playing in and hosting charitable poker tournaments. She has been involved in advocacy on a number of poker-related issues including advocating for the legality of online gambling and for players' rights to control their own image. Duke was co-founder, executive vice president, and commissioner of the Epic Poker League from 2011 to 2012.

Early life and family

Duke, born as Anne LaBarr Lederer, grew up in Concord, New Hampshire, where her father, writer and linguist Richard Lederer, taught English literature at St. Paul's School and her mother, Rhoda Lederer, taught at Concord High School. Her parents were both card players and Duke became interested in cards from an early age. Her siblings are professional poker player Howard Lederer and author and poet Katy Lederer, who published a memoir about the Lederer family.

Duke attended St. Paul's School, then enrolled at Columbia University where she double-majored in English and psychology. After graduating from Columbia, she pursued a Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on cognitive linguistics and writing her dissertation on a hypothesis of how children learn their first language called "syntactic bootstrapping". For her graduate studies she was awarded a National Science Foundation fellowship. In 1991, one month before defending her doctoral dissertation, she decided that she no longer wished to pursue academia and left school.

In 1992, she married Ben Duke, and moved to Billings, Montana. They were married until 2004 and had four children. The couple lived in both Las Vegas and Montana for periods of time from 1992 to 2002, when they moved to Portland, Oregon. In 2005, Duke and her children moved to the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.

Professional poker career

Early career

Duke first played Texas hold'em in a casino at age 22 and continued to play for fun in Las Vegas casinos while visiting her brother, Howard Lederer during her graduate school years. After she moved to Billings, Montana in 1992, Lederer encouraged Duke to play poker professionally, sending her $2,400 and providing her with poker instruction books and lessons by phone. She began to play poker initially at the Crystal Lounge, a local bar in Billings that had a legal poker room. Following a successful year playing in Montana, her brother prompted her to enter tournaments at the 1994 World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas. Within the first month, she won $70,000 and decided to move to Las Vegas to pursue her professional poker career.

Live poker

In the first two tournaments of the 1994 World Series of Poker, Duke placed 14th and 5th, and finished 26th in the Main Event. Following her move to Las Vegas, Duke continued successfully playing poker on a professional basis through the late 1990s, and by 2000 had 16 in the money finishes at WSOP events, prior to the WSOP World Championship event that year.

From 2000 onward, she became well-known for her high profile achievements in WSOP events. In the 2000 WSOP World Championship event, while nine months pregnant with her third child, she placed 10th out of a total of 512 players, which was the second-highest finish by a woman in the event's history. She received a WSOP gold bracelet in 2004, placing first out of 234 entrants in an Omaha Hi-Lo Split tournament. By July of that year she had become the top female money winner in the history of the WSOP; earning over $650,000 from 25 in the money finishes, including 13 at the final table. Later in 2004, she placed first in the inaugural WSOP Tournament of Champions, beating her brother and nine former world championship winners and winning $2 million. In the 2006 WSOP, she was one of only two women left in the tournament when she finished in 88th place with $51,129 in winnings.

In 2010, Duke won the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship, winning $500,000 and becoming the first and only female winner of the event as of 2013. Her previous record at the tournament was one match win and five losses. In the 2010 event she came first out of 64 players, including previous winner Huck Seed, and defeated Erik Seidel in the final match.

As of 2013, Duke's total winnings from her 38 cashes at the WSOP is $1,141,567 and she holds the women's record for most in the money finishes at the WSOP, ranking 34th overall. In total, Duke has won over $4,270,000 in live tournaments and is ranked as the third highest winning woman of all time, as of 2012.

World Series of Poker Bracelets

Year Tournament Prize (US$)
2004 $3,000 Omaha High-Low 8/OB $137,860

Online poker activities

From 2001 to 2004, Duke worked as a spokesperson and consultant for ieLogic, a company that developed online poker software for multiplayer poker websites including Ultimate Bet. She moved to Portland, Oregon where ieLogic was based in 2002 and remained there until 2005.

Duke represented Ultimate Bet as a spokesperson until December 2010, when she announced that she was leaving the company.

On two occasions, Duke has testified in Congress on behalf of the Poker Players Alliance regarding the legality of Internet gambling. In 2007, she appeared in front of the House Committee on the Judiciary to testify against the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, and in 2010, she appeared in front of the House Committee on Financial Services to provide support for H.R. 2267, the Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act.

Other poker activities

Debates, advocacy and coaching

As well as her advocacy regarding online gambling on behalf of the Poker Players Alliance, Duke has also been involved in debate about whether players should be allowed to wear the logos of their sponsor companies at televised poker events. In the mid-2000s, she was one of a number of players that argued against such restrictions being placed on players. In 2006, she was one of seven players who filed a lawsuit against the World Poker Tour (WPT), alleging that the WPT's release forms, required for participation in their events, were anti-competitive and violated individuals' rights to their own image. The suit was settled in 2008, when the WPT agreed to modify the release form.

Duke has opposed and avoided playing at the WSOP Ladies Event, arguing that having a separate WSOP bracelet event for women suggests that there is a difference in intellect between men and women. Duke has also supported women in poker through coaching women players at the LIPS (Ladies International Poker Series) Tour, instructing at several women-only World Series of Poker Academy events, and giving the keynote speech at the 2011 Women in Poker Hall of Fame induction ceremony.

She has served on the World Series of Poker Player Advisory Council and has taught at the WSOP Poker Academy poker school. She has also coached a number of celebrities on how to play poker, including Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, whom she coached to win the 2004 California State Poker Championship.

Organizations

Duke was a co-founder and commissioner of the Epic Poker League, which sponsored three tournaments at the Palms Casino Resort in 2011. Through the three tournaments, the league raised more than $125,000 for charity: $53,000 for humanitarian organization Operation USA; $25,000 for the charity Fallen Heroes USA, which supports families of law enforcement officers who die in service; and $48,000 for the Prevent Cancer Foundation's "Bad Beat on Cancer" campaign. The league was co-founded by former World Series of Poker commissioner Jeffrey Pollack, operating under Pollack's company Federated Sports + Gaming. After Epic Poker held its first three planned events, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on February 28, 2012. Filing records show Federated Sports + Gaming owed creditors more than $8 million. The Epic Poker League and its parent company were acquired by Pinnacle Entertainment in a June 2012 bankruptcy auction.

During 2011, Duke and Eric Faulkner, the CIO of Federated Sports + Gaming, created the Global Poker Index (GPI). The index ranks the top 300 live tournament poker players each week.

Books, DVDs and product line

Duke's book Decide to Play Great Poker, a strategy book for no-limit hold'em, was published in June 2011. The book was co-authored with John Vorhaus. The following year, Duke and Vorhaus published a second book together, The Middle Zone, which focused on strategy for difficult hands. In addition to her instructional books, Duke released an instructional DVD series including Annie Duke's Advanced Texas Hold'em Secrets: How to Beat the Big Boys and in 2005 she launched a range of poker products with ESPN.

Philanthropy

Duke, actor Don Cheadle, and a mutual friend, Norman Epstein, co-founded the non-profit Ante Up for Africa in 2007 to raise money with poker tournaments for charities benefiting African countries. The first tournament in July 2007 was held at the start of the World Series of Poker and raised more than $700,000, which was donated to the ENOUGH Project and the International Rescue Committee. In 2008, 2009 and 2010, money raised in the organization's tournaments was again donated to the ENOUGH Project, and also to Not On Our Watch, Refugees International, Water.org, and the Eastern Congo Initiative.

In 2009, Duke entered the reality television show Celebrity Apprentice to raise money for Refugees International. She finished as a runner up to Joan Rivers and raised more than $700,000 for her chosen charity, over half of the total amount raised by contestants on the show. After the season ended, fans continued to donate to Refugees International and in May 2009 Duke hosted a charity poker tournament at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino to benefit the charity.

Duke has also played in and hosted charitable poker tournaments for organizations including Life Rolls On, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and Boston Children's Hospital, for which she helped to raise $500,000 in 2007 and $425,000 in 2012. She played in a charity poker tournament organized by the Poker Players Alliance in July 2009 to benefit the United Service Organizations and the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and hosted a poker tournament in May 2010 to raise money for After-School All-Stars, a non-profit supporting after-school programs for children from low income families.

From 2007, Duke served as a member of the board of directors for the Decision Education Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Palo Alto that provides training for teachers and mentors to produce curricula focused on decision-making skills for their students. As of 2013, she is no longer a member of the board of directors.

Other ventures

Duke wrote an autobiography titled Annie Duke: How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed, and Won Millions at the World Series of Poker, which was published in September 2005. She has performed for storytelling organization The Moth, and in January 2013, she was a featured storyteller on the Unchained Tour, a storytelling tour across the Southern United States.

Television

In the mid-2000s, Duke was a producer and consultant for All In, a pilot television show for NBC based on her life, in which she was played by Janeane Garofalo. In the same time period, she also created Annie Duke Takes on the World, a television show on the Game Show Network in which she played poker against amateur players.

She has appeared on a number of television shows, including being the first poker personality to appear The Colbert Report on January 30, 2006, and finishing in second place in the 2009 season of Celebrity Apprentice. Duke has also appeared on the game shows Deal or No Deal and 1 vs. 100.

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